Gepatschspeicher
Sign in to saveGepatschspeicher is an artificial lake of Tyrol, Austria. It feeds a pumped storage hydropower plant built in 1961-1964 with 395 MW power in the town of Prutz at the Inn river.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- hydroelectric power station
- Country
- Austria
- Located in
- Kaunertal
- Area
- 2.6
- Elevation
- 1751
- Operator
- TIWAG
- Image
- Gepatschspeicher in Kaunertal, view heading north.jpg
- Length
- 600
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- inception
- 1964-00-00
- Commons category
- Gepatschspeicher
- volume as quantity
- 138000000
- nominal power output
- 392
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Encyclopedic overview
Gepatschspeicher is an artificial lake of Tyrol, Austria. It feeds a pumped storage hydropower plant built in 1961-1964 with 395 MW power in the town of Prutz at the Inn river.
The artificial dam of about 160 metres height and 600 m length is located in the upper Kaunertal valley under the Kaunertal glacier and the water is fed to the power plant through a tunnel of 13 km length and a height difference over 800 m. Through a tunnel the lake also takes water from the neighbouring parallel valley Pitztal.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gepatschspeicher” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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